The Republican journal., 1887-12-01
Generalities.

Charlottctown, Prince Edward Island, SUI
tains the scott Ii Iuor law.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has 1000 miles of
track and more then 100000 employees.
Sewing has been added to the course of in
structiOn for girls in the public schools of New
York.
The project is revived to lay Il cable across
the Pacific via the Sandwich Islands and Aus
traa.
Two Pinkerton detectives are constantly
guarding Fish Commissioner Joseph Cham
hcrlain.
The American colonies in Berlin and London
celebrated Thanksgiving Day in an appropriate
manner.
1t Is said that scheme has been started to or
ganze the followers of Parsons and Spies. the
Anarchists.
i. r. Barnum offers 81 900 for the capture of
the incendiary who fired his winter quarters ut
Bridgeport.
A Detroit landlord turned ex-senator Jones
OF Florida out of doors last week for non-pay-
mcnt of board.
Several parties have been arrested for perjury
and mill operators for violating the Child Labor
law i'll Cohoes.
Fircbugs are abundant in St. Louis. Anar-
chists are declared to have started various III
cendiary blazes.
Mr.. Banum places the loss by the burning of
his circus at 500, 600. Mr.. Bailey estimates the
loss at 100000.
Anthony Comstock says there is no law I'M
der which dealer i'll cheating tools for ga,nl-
lers can be prosecuted.
The total cost of defending the Chicago An
archists was 5000, and the expense to Cook
county for prosecution 100000.
A third-party Prohibitionist is man who be-
lieves that the way to advance Il cause Is to PIT
1t III the hands Of its worst enemies.
Montreal has taken actions against no insur-
ance and other companies in the province that
have failed to pay the commercial tax.
The bench of the supre me court decides that
fox hunts i'll Massachusetts are a violation of the
law for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Rev. DR.. Parker of London is amazed at the
extent of this country,,and predicts that there
will be grand collapse or great discipline.
Five vessels were wrecked near Chicago last
week in a gale. The crew of one schooner were
nearly frozen to death before they were resct-
ed.
Advices from New Orleans point to a sugar
crop of SOC, 900 hogsheadS. The Louisiana rice
crop will be onc-thrd short of last years har-
vest.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster was recently given are
ception in London by Mrs. Bright Lucas. presi-
dent Of the Worlds Women's Temperance
Union.
During the past nine months of the present
year California has gained 10000 in population
from immigration, against 1o,5 800 for the same
time last year.
The Los Angeles Herald claims that by act
ual count there are HOS houses in course of
construction in that town. The average cost
is put at $3.50.
The captain OF the New York ship Bridge
water has increased his claim against the Do
mnion Government for illegal seizure aud de-
tentlon of his vessel.
More than 1900 poor families in Boston were
supplied by the City Mission Society with tur-
keys. groceries and provisions to make feast
for Thanksgiving Day.
The Anarchist Defense Committee of Clca-
go have definitely arranged to have their dead
buried i'll one plot of ground. $500 square feet,
in Wndheim Cemetery.
At the Thanksgiving services in Trinity
Church, New York, DIR. Dix preached Il SER
mon III Which he dealt some home thrusts 1T in
archy and the anarchists.
A Macon (Ga.) court handed Il Young color
ell thief over to the tender mcrcies of his old
father, who severely logged the boy in public
for stealing sack of corn.
Terrible stories come from the West and
South concerning the work of forest fires,
which have spread with dreadful rapiditv ow-
ing to the protracted drouth.
a poor fellow living at Syracuse sent all his
savings to West Prussia to bring his wife and
eight children to this country. They sailed OH
the W. A. scholton, and all were lost
Rev. DR.. Parker Of London is said to have
received pay for the Beechcr culogy. contrary
to the general opinion that his services were
given to help swell the monument fund.
The crofters OH the Isle of Lewis, Scotland,
nave begun acampaign of determination against
the deer, OH the ground that croftcrs are starry
ing and need the land now given up to the deer.
Nina Van Zandt, or Mrs. Spies-by-proxy, has
purchased widows mourning outfit in Chica
90 and intends to lament her executed 'hlis-
band' after the approved Christian custom.
! Master Workman Powderly declare that this
generation is not good enough to practice the
I'm common" land theories which have recent
ly been presented to our people for adoption
Its understood that the Secretary of War will
recommend to Congress the enactment Of bill
to provide for the retirement of Judge Advo-
cate General Swain, now under sentence of sus-
pension.
Extracts from the report of the agent at
Washington OF the Colombian government show
that the cost of the Panama canal will reach
$500, 600 900, and that it will take 10 years to
finish it.
Barnum's elephant Alice, Jumbo's i|Iustriolls
cOnsOrt, was dissected in Bridgeport, Conn. In
her stomach were found 800 pennies, part of
pocket knife, four cane ferrules and a piece of
lead pipe.
The hearing before the Interstate Commits
sion in regard to the alleged discrimination
shown by the Standard Oil Company to South
ern roads is one of the most important yet I'M
dertaken.
The United states has a standing army of
1900 officers and "a ,23G men. And yet within
sixty days half million of soldiers could be
placed in any part of the United States, armed
and equipped.
The number of immigrants landed at the ports
of the United States from the principal foreign
countries, from Jan. to Oct. 81, was 454 ,699.
This is 120,S175 more than arrived during the
same time last year.
1t is understood that Secretary Bayard has